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Pros & Cons
Pros
I have an unopened seagate 8t backup plus drive i bought in 11/2016 that is unopened. I also have a 5tb that has never given me problems. I'm running redundant raid, so i'm willing to accept that this drive might prematurely fail.
Seagate one of the top two industry leaders for some time and pretty good history to show for it while advancing this aspect of our digital world. It comes with a four-month membership to the adobe creative cloud photography plan. Still, 12 years of p... Read More
Cons
Seagate external hard drive is extremely unreliable and it will fail without warning leaving you without a way to save your work. It is now stuck on the last 8% transferring at a near dialup internet rate of 2. Drive not repairable.
Do not buy this peice of garbage. Using one for backup is useless. Now it is worthless to me! Which is a crock, imo.
Since i shucked it, the warranty is invalid. Seagate may replace defective products with refurbished parts.
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Quality
All that said im still very happy with the unit as it is working perfectly for my purposes
And like all seagate external drives ive ever had there is no issue with the os i use
25 tb so pretty pleased with that lol
This product black version works well once formatted and loaded with toolkit software
Shipping
Seagate would not send an rma ticket with shipping paid by them — even though they initially and now subsequently sent me a ma... Read More
Packaging/appearance
Super easy to setup right out of the box
Competitiveness
This was my first segate drive as always bought their biggest competitor but so impressed i will likely buy segate in the future
This does not speak well of seagate or its commitment to its customers
I have two of these white 8tb each
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external, still and great. - Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
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- This product had a total of 9,632 reviews as of our last analysis date on May 5 2023.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I did not get out of it what i thought i would but it is for loading games only does the trick
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I dont know maybe it is quieter than other external drives but the fan whirs most of the time and it makes this sort of light mumblegrumble like someone trying to clear their throat quietly during church
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
No issues until recently when the drive not enclosure power cycled several times during a large file transfer
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I bought two seagate 8tb drives to replace this
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Ill keep using it as a scratch drive until it finally dies then repurpose the enclosure with a ssd
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
It started making noises 6 months ago
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Manufacture only supports 1 year after purchase
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
However the replace i just received does the same thing as the one i returned for the same reason
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